At the awards ceremony, each winner is presented with a diploma, a badge with the coat of arms of the Princess of Asturias Foundation, a sculpture designed byJoan Miró(1893 – 1983), a Catalan-Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramist, and a cash prize of 50,000 Euros. If a prize is ...
As well as each empire’s grand scale of rich natural resources such as gold and silver, however with the arrival of the Spanish the Indians hierarchy drastically changed with the introduction of the Caste system. In the coming years, the Spanish began spreading Catholicism throughout the ...
Out of sheer curiosity, I picked them up and felt them in my hand. They were heavy. Substantial pieces of silver. I examined them closely and spotted a coat of arms between two pillars with banners coiled around them, beneath a crown. Around the edges were Latin inscriptions. One of them...
And Havana, by virtue of its position in the Caribbean, was the “key” to the entire region. One of the symbols on the coat of arms of Havana is an old-fashioned gold key. I’ll be discussing all this with my small group of Road Scholars on the VEENDAM as we make our way from...
Hernan Cortes arrived in Mexico with his ships and his men. This was the turning point in history for the Spanish and the Aztecs. The Aztecs had worshipped Cortes as a god mostly because their God, Quetzulacoat was to arrive the same time as Cortes did. In the point of view of Cortes...
to invadeEnglandin conjunction with a Spanish army fromFlanders. England’s attempts to repel this fleet involved the first naval battles to be fought entirely with heavy guns, and the failure of Spain’s enterprise saved England and the Netherlands from possible absorption into the Spanish empire...
to invadeEnglandin conjunction with a Spanish army fromFlanders. England’s attempts to repel this fleet involved the first naval battles to be fought entirely with heavy guns, and the failure of Spain’s enterprise saved England and the Netherlands from possible absorption into the Spanish empire...
The compromise between the papacy and the French is evident on the staircase itself, which contains carvings of the fleurs-de-lis of the Bourbon family along with the checkered eagle coat of arms of Pope Innocent XIII. The steps have long been a gathering place for the wealthy, the ...